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The Copper River or Ahtna River (/ ˈ ɑː t n ə /; Ahtena: ‘Atna’tuu ([ʔatʰnaʔtʰuː]), "river of the Ahtnas"; [1] Tlingit: Eeḵhéeni ([ʔìːq.híː.nì]), "river of copper", [2] [3] is a 290-mile (470 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States.
Michael James "Moose" Heney (October 24, 1864 – October 11, 1910 [1]) was a railroad contractor, best known for his work on the first two railroads built in Alaska, the White Pass and Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway.
Southern portion of the Copper River showing the location of the railway from Cordova to Kennicott. On April 24, 1973, the railway remains, comprising 11 trestles, an abandoned native village with a Russian post and the Tiekel Station, were added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places. [13]
Copper River Census Area is a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore has no borough seat. On January 2, 2019, it was split from the Valdez–Cordova Census Area, along with neighboring Chugach Census Area.
The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River.
Major General Henry Tureman Allen (April 13, 1859 – August 29, 1930) was a senior United States Army officer known for exploring the Copper River in Alaska in 1885 along with the Tanana and Koyukuk rivers by transversing 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of wilderness, an accomplishment which Nelson A. Miles compared to that of Lewis and Clark.
From the junction of the Middle and the North forks of the Bremner the river flows through mountain wilderness 40 miles (64 km) southwest to the Copper. [5] The town of Bremner Alaska, on the Copper River, a small settlement with an airstrip, [5] near Chitina is the site of the Bremner Historic Mining District which is on the National Register ...
Copper Center (Tl’aticae’e [2] in Ahtna) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Copper River in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. By road, it is 196 miles (315 km) northeast of Anchorage. At the 2020 census the population was 338, up from 328 in 2000. [3]